In march, at the peak of Facebook popularity, I quit. with four swift clicks of the mouse, I canceled my account. Gone was the entire online persona I had created for myself — profile pictures, interests and
activities, work history, friends acquired — all carefully thought out to showcase to the world the very best version of me, all now deleted.

Ironically, the decision to destroy my carefully built-up virtual image came as a result of wanting to enhance my profile. All that particular week I’d been hungry for new quotes on my page, something
to reflect the week I’d been having: something introspective. I perused a quotes website and found this one attributed to Aristotle: